Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin

Souvankham Thammavongsa joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Size of Things (newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-size-of-…),” by Samanta Schweblin (translated, from the Spanish, by Megan McDowell), which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian writer. Her publications include the poetry collections “amazon.com/Light-Souvankham-Thammavongsa/dp/18… and “amazon.com/Cluster-Souvankham-Thammavongsa/dp/… and the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife (amazon.com/dp/0316422134),” which won the Giller Prize in 2020. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2021.

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